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Evenly

With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.

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Equal 66% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Even 66% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Equally 92% connected

In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally…

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Asperity noun · 78% connection

Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

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Butte noun · 78% connection

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in…

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Calender noun · 78% connection

A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, o…

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Coextension noun · 78% connection

The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.

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Cozily adverb · 78% connection

Snugly; comfortably.

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Digest verb · 78% connection

Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

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Equivocal adjective · 78% connection

(Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretat…

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Evenness noun · 78% connection

The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropri…

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Face verb · 78% connection

To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smoot…

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Flat superl. · 78% connection

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

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Flatten adjective · 78% connection

To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

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Flush adjective · 78% connection

Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

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Glossy superl. · 78% connection

Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.

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Indifferently adverb · 78% connection

In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; pa…

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Intensity noun · 78% connection

The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, th…

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Land noun · 78% connection

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level pa…

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Level adjective · 78% connection

Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts…

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Living noun · 78% connection

Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.

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